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If you've ever wondered whether spiders get depressed, or what happens when you put a gun in a refrigerator, or what Presidents of the United States do after their terms end, this podcast will relieve you of the effort of having to look it up yourself.
Timestamps:
00:55 - Filling a swimming pool with beans
06:16 - International dairy classification guide
13:20 - Shorts: how much is in a ton of money, when can you resume wearing white if you stop on Labor Day
14:15 - Trumpet solos in Soviet movie-musicals
31:30 - Outro: Ivan Vasilievich
Sources:
Alyans - Na Zare (80s Soviet synthpop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl-EyhXl0
Bean pools -
http://www.poolwizard.net/metric-pool-volume/
https://fina.org/sites/default/files/finafacilities_rules.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooting_Bec_Lido
Shorts -
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/coin-specifications
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Eliminating%2BHDNfinalXYZ.pdf
Trumpet solos -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYddUl-GItk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXDFaTFKsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZzG1XbDH_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJI09R-4ZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO6FMIrLaSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WUiJziSYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXMHsfUaFoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFfd8ZKKzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ie01PETGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMEfNhShh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UslGLtDARcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tun_ZYsnuAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7r8tRVoXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRAf2-9Zs8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzKDH2hWJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRmZ9KIBWhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUOBtR75u0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyXiiaEzjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko8P3rbDFFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVSm1i0fok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2yiIoEtXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzpQbxHhen4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBvOAOghu2E
Look It Up is a podcast for the curious. On this episode: can you microwave clothes to dry them? Are humans to ants as mountains are to humans? And a brief discussion on meringue safety.
Sources: bit.ly/microclothes, bit.ly/duckmolt, bit.ly/meringues1, bit.ly/meringues2. Outro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqJQUYQphZM
Look It Up is a podcast for the curious. On today's episode: are farmers given enough incentive to leave fields fallow? How does Amtrak stay in business? And otters.
Sources:
Farming subsidies (Grist): bit.ly/farmingsubsidie. USDA Conservation Reserve Program (AgWeb): bit.ly/crpsubsidies. Average expected crop yields: bit.ly/potatopounds.
History of Amtrak subsidies: bit.ly/amtraksubsidies. Amtrak budget starting 2015: bit.ly/amtrakbudget15. Supplementary amtrak data (Federal Railroad Administration): bit.ly/amtrakfra.
Baking yeasts: bit.ly/activedryyeast. Otters (Aquarium of the Bay): bit.ly/liuotters.
On this week's episode: do school district boundaries follow the lines suggested by a Voronoi diagram? What are the origins of the Prairie Home Companion song about rhubarb pie? Are some types of blankets warmer than others?
0:42 - Voronoi school districts
3:09 - Rhubarb pie
7:06 - Shorts
7:40 - Blankets
9:33 - Sources
10:05 - Lev Theremin playing the theremin
Sources: supplementary images for "Voronoi school districts," bit.ly/liuschools1. School district boundaries, bit.ly/liuschools2. Prairie Home Companion, prairiehome.org. A book about Lawrence Tibbett, bit.ly/liulawrence.
These images accompany the "Voronoi school districts" segment in Episode 11.
Above: Missoula, MT. Bottom layer Google Maps, middle layer Voronoi, top layer actual school districts.
Above: Missoula, MT. Bottom layer Google Maps, top layer Voronoi.
Above: Santa Rosa, CA. Bottom layer Google Maps, middle layer (colour) actual school district boundaries, top layer Voronoi.
Above: Santa Rosa, CA. Bottom layer Google Maps, top layer Voronoi.
Look It Up is a podcast for the indiscriminately curious. On this week's episode: why do I get so cold in a hammock? Which type of transport is safest per mile traveled? Where did the names for the days of the week come from?
Sources: transportation statistics from the NTSB and IIHS, bit.ly/liutransport1, bit.ly/liutransport2, and bit.ly/liutransport3. Weekday etymologies on Wikipedia, bit.ly/liuweekdays.
Look It Up is a podcast for the indiscriminately curious. On this episode:
0:43 - What would gymnastics look like in low gravity?
4:19 - What is data scaping?
5:52 - Shorts: does the third-party doctrine apply to iMessage? What happens if you drive over a road flare?
6:48 - Forfeitures, a segment about the weird stuff the US Government seizes
9:09 - Sources. NASA video about movement in space suits, bit.ly/liugravity. Scientific American article on lunar Olympic gymnastics, bit.ly/liugymnastics. SLU Law Journal article about iMessage and the third-party doctrine, bit.ly/liudoctrine. US Government forfeiture website, www.forfeiture.gov.
Today's episode featured a clip from Philippe Beer Gabel's "Cats in my mind" and "Mystical Picnic" by Nutmeg, all from the Free Music Archive, freemusicarchive.org
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On this week's episode: what are closed cities? Is there anywhere in the US that's safe from natural disasters? What is rebar for and how is it made?
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This week: what tone languages have to do with perfect pitch, how to tell if a number is divisible by 13 (or 17, 19, etc.), and the return of Forfeitures.
This week: why fumigation tents look like circus tents, how easy it is to break your sternum, and how to apply for a patent in the United States.
This week: a history of grain silos, etymologies, and what'll happen when California runs out of license plate combinations. Also on this episode, shorts and a list of cool stuff seized by United States Customs and Border Protection officers.
Sources: grain silos at bit.ly/liugrains and bit.ly/grains2; license plate article at bit.ly/liuplates; forfeiture lists at forfeiture.gov.
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On this episode of Look It Up: were there marches in the 1500s? How do you type on a Japanese or Chinese keyboard? Is there a correlation between geographic location or political party and whether you say "an -" or "a historic?"
This, and more. Check it out.
Links:
bit.ly/anhistoricspreadsheet: the data and results for an v. a historic
bit.ly/liu1500march: the YouTube video of the march we listened to
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On this week's episode of Look It Up: what kinds of jobs do former Presidents of the United States have? What and where is the heroin highway? Can I leave a house unfinished and not pay property taxes on it?
This, and more. Check it out.
Links:
bit.ly/liuhistoric: "an historic" v. "a historic" survey
bit.ly/liupresjobsabc: ABC news article about post-presidential life
bit.ly/liupresjobschart: chart of former US Presidents' occupations
bit.ly/liuillsurvey: Illinois Youth Survey
bit.ly/liutaxesallegheny: Allegheny County tax abatement codes
bit.ly/liuconstructiontx: Texas construction definitions
bit.ly/liuconstructionca: California construction definitions
bit.ly/liuconstructionwa: Washington State construction definitions.
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This week's episode of Look It Up deals with whether or not it's safe to refrigerate guns, a survey looking to see whether Republicans say "an historic" disproportionately more than Democrats, and what would happen if Equity name rules applied to politicians.
Links:
bit.ly/liusenturia: gun study
bit.ly/liukennedy: Huffington Post article about Kennedy
bit.ly/liuhistoric: "an historic" v. "a historic" survey
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Gearing up for a new segment, and I'd appreciate your help. Click on the following link to take an extremely short (3-question) survey: Studying use of "an historic" versus "a historic".
Thanks! Back next Tuesday with a brand-new episode.
This week on Look It Up: World's Fairs and how they're surprisingly still a thing, how different generations make furniture-purchasing decisions, and whether or not animals can be ambidextrous.
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